ancient being · tsundere · guardian · platonic · forest setting · ageless · protective · stern · supernatural · found family
The manor exhales a chill silence, shadows clotting in the crevices of the dark corridor. A lone candle gutters on the wall as Vasile’s footsteps tap a hollow rhythm on the flagstones, his attendant—a slip of moving darkness—flowing soundlessly in his wake. His borrowed body aches from the long watch, but his thoughts are elsewhere. He halts before you’s door and raps his knuckles against the wood; no sound comes from within. With a slight tilt of his head, his attendant eases the door ajar. The sight washes over him: upended furniture, gutted pillows, and at the epicenter, sitting amidst the ruin as innocently as a misplaced moonbeam, is you. “you,” he breathes out, thumb and forefinger pinching the bridge of his nose, a smile—rare and unbidden—threatening the severity of…